The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-12-10


but who occasionally entertain female society Of
questionable repide 20 ihcr lodgings. They
adorn the apartments Of FAST men about town,
whose foolish fathers have guibbed through life
10 leave them fortunes which have led them down
10 moral and physical ruin. Anthony Comstock
has seized Iinuedler's pictures ON the ground OF
mdeconcy, and the pictures themselves are put
in evidence IT'S an wcll enough TO cry out
Honl soit que male pense." You can't help 10
If the male pcnse is held mp before you under
the Hight of a MONDAY sun. All representations
to the contrary. Anthony Comstock IS no icono-
elastic fool who would put pantalettes on the legs
of piano, but gentleman Of taste who loves
good picture or good statue quite rs well as
Mr.. Knoedler or any of his friends. He does
not believe in artistic hlacSguardism or sugges-
tive indecency, however finely embellished by
color: and he objects TO artistic prostitution, Just
as he objects to literary and moral prostitution,
and he win not allow It to be practised in New
York II he can help it.
New York loves art and Is willing to pay for it,.
What Americans win do is evidenced by the pay
mcnt of S5O,0OOfor Rosa Bonhcur's "Horse Fair
$40, 90 for bIunkacsy's "Christ before PLATE, "
$4,000 for a small canyas-Iues Breton's Com
mmicants," and other sums equally startling
and enormous for paintings of genuine merit. but
she wants no prottuted art, however beautiful
the figures or allurng the colors. She wishes to
elevate the minds of her young men and maid
ems, TO make them wiser and purer and better
without exposing the vices of the brothel or the
indeocncics Of the Mable to the public gaze.
| France has a perfect right to her standard OF
morals or politics; with these we have nothing
to do, II is immatcrial to us if one Of her rulers
is asSassinated by the courtesan with whom he
outraged the decencies and proprieties of life OF
| if Monsieur Grevy is forced TO retire from power
because he chooses to uphold an infamous aud
dishonest son-in-law. It's all French; let the
French manage it and enjoy it, but we want none
Of it i'm New York.
We have an art-dealer here who has beer
famous for a quarter of century and who Ia,
supplied more good pictures TO the Art gallere,
ofAmerica than any man in the United States
l refer TO William Schaus. Yet in al of his Ions
and honorable career he has never found i
necessary to his profit or fame to deal in art
prostitution. His worthy successor, his nephew
Herman Schaus, who now carries on the busl
ness, proGting by his uncle's honorable expert
ence, refuses to deal in artistic backguardsm
and the blase roue requiring that kind ofart is re
specially but firmly referred to the "Littl,
Church Around the Corner" in the case o
Knoedler's obscene pictures our sympathies ar,
entirely with Mr. Comstock, and we trust tina
this matter may be pursued till the glaring in
decencies of the Paris Salon shall no longer fl
the standard of American Art.
Among the recent art exhibitions are PnotyI
Wise and Foolish Virgins, an admirable work
and Hans BTarkarts Five Senses, of which more
anon.
This being Thanksgiving week is one of the las
milestones OF the year when all classes, high ant
low, rich and poor, halt for rest and reflection
and enjoyment. 1 stood in the great marke
place of New York the day before Thanksgivn,
watching the scene with interested eyes. From
this point nearly three millions of people mainly
draw their supplies. Well might we raise The
Gloria in EXcesis Dec at the sight of such abund
ance The carriage of Midas on the Fifth avenue
iostled against the prison van which was gather
ing the Thanksgiving dinner for the feons OF
BlaclIwell's Island and in the Tombs Her,
were large trucks loaded up with all sorts o
good things for the homes of the newsboys ant
bOotblacks and the different orphan asyums
hospitals and homes for the poor and friendless
The tramp must be poor wretch indeed wht
cannot get a square meal on this blessed day. A
week ago and the whole country stood with bateC
breath awaiting the cOnsummation of one of tn,
most startling tragedies of the century. To-da,
and over the graves of the dead rises the anthem
of Glory to God in the highest for peace restore,
and safety secured by the sacrifice. Tovindicat
the principle Of sef-gOyernment and the right o
man to himself, we covered the hillsdes of th
North and the South with the graves of GU
brayest and our best. The nation that did thi
is not to be frightened by the crazy mouthings o